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Wednesday Feb 11, 2009

Web Space Server has out-of-box localization for 22 languages , out
of which Sun provides localization support for Japanese (ja) and
Simplified Chinese (zh_CN). Remaining languages are community
driven.Also it has been Internationalized which allow localization in
new languages which does not shipped out of box.

Thursday Sep 18, 2008

Recently we have defined a common way to do I18n and L10n in WebSynergy. This process will be used for I18n/L10n during development of WebSynergy. It can also be used to develop new porlet with taking advantage of existing UI Tag lib and Language util class for I18n/L10n.

The article uses a sample portlet to describe the procedures for
internationalization, localization, and deployment of internationalized
portlets on Portal Server. That is, you learn how to display portlet
content in various languages and how to add new language support to
existing portlets.

Note: for all Portal Server related articles, you can use the "article" tag on The Portal Post.

Friday Jul 27, 2007

Today we have checked-in the
localization files for 7 languages in the OpenPortal repository. You can
check out the latest Portal Server sources - the localization files are in the location - .../openportal/portal/l10n/src

The localized Portal Server is simpler and easier to use... To provide a seamless experience to localization users, all the l10n files are bundled in the core Portal install units (pkgs, rpms etc). There are no separate l10n install units.

Thursday Jul 19, 2007

Gone are days when the Localization(L10n) support came in much later than
the product release! We ship the
product with 7 languages for every release we do. This means the
product is fully localized in all aspects during the development cycle
and there is only one multi-language release of any version. The
official Sun supported languages are : German(de), Spenish(es), French(fr), Japanese(ja), Korean(ko), Simplified Chinese(zh-cn),
Traditional Chinese(zh-tw).

We are members of Portal Globalization(G11n) team and are very excited to
use this forum to discuss Portal Internationalization(I18n) and
Localization(L10n) topics. We made lot of changes for the OpenPortal
project to simplify the mechanics of how we manage l10n sources and how
the translations get built and packaged with the product. For instance,
we eliminated the need for separate l10n packages! We look forward to
your suggestions and comments to improve our product for non-English
customers.